Concept Engineering Manager

Arrow Energy (“Arrow”) is an integrated coal seam gas (CSG) company, which develops gas fields, produces, and sells CSG, and generates electricity. We have safely and sustainably developed CSG since 2000 and supplied it commercially since 2004 – for both industrial use and power generation in Queensland, and for power generation in the east coast gas market. 

Our vision is to be the most competitive and respected developer of unconventional gas value chains in Australia. 

Today, Arrow owns and operates Braemar 2, a 450-megawatt gas-fired power station south-west of Dalby and is developing the Surat Gas Project in western Queensland. Sanctioned in 2020, the Surat Gas Project’s first phase comprises more than 600 coal seam gas wells and will bring 5 trillion cubic feet of gas to market over 27 years.

Arrow is an incorporated joint venture owned by two of the world’s largest energy companies, Shell and PetroChina. 

At Arrow, safety is our highest priority and our values – respect, lead, own, solve and integrate – underpin everything we do. 

We are proud to be a Work 180 Endorsed Employer for all Women.  At Arrow, everyone belongs. We have a high-performance culture that celebrates diversity and inclusivity, as one of our key foundations. We believe that enabling people to bring their whole selves to work creates a thriving and successful culture.

You will be Rewarded:

We recruit talented and motivated people who are passionate about contributing to our journey.

Your appointment will be met with ongoing training and development opportunities, to ensure your greatest potential is realised.

Our Benefits: 

• An attractive remuneration package.
• Annual incentive scheme based on company & individual performance.
• Flexible working arrangements – combine work from anywhere and the office with flexible start and finish times.
• Work180 Endorsed Employer for Women.
• Ongoing learning and professional development opportunities.
• Indigenous support network, ‘Bundagadan’, offering mentoring, workshops, and coaching opportunities.
• Employee Benefits Program - $3000 per year to cover insurances/electricity rebates.
• Novated leasing, corporate discount programs, lifestyle benefit, specialist health care service access, annual flu shot & skin check and Employee Assistance Program.
• Gender neutral leave policies, including paid primary and secondary carers’ leave.
• Bonus 5 days annual leave awarded at 5-year anniversary.

We have a high-performance culture that embraces diversity and rewards quality work.

To meet our growing demands, we are looking for a Concept Engineering Manager to join our team.

Reporting to the General Manager Development and Reservoir Management, the purpose of the role is to Lead the integration, optimisation, and scope definition of Concept Engineering opportunities up to and including handover to the Project Delivery organisation, operating within a defined opportunity frame and Arrow maturation processes.

This is a Brisbane based position and will require occasional travel to our field operations as required, with plenty of notice.

In addition, you will:

• Demonstrate a personal commitment to consistently role model Arrow’s values, code of conduct, safety, and the environment.
• Establish positive and productive working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Model inclusive behaviours to create a safe environment where different views and perspectives are encouraged and valued.
• Own continued focus on safe design, execution, and operation of existing and new developments through challenging concepts and design to be as safe as reasonably practical and visible presence at ongoing delivery activities and operations.
• Identify, assess, and manage the concept of engineering solutions in Arrow's acreage, managing basin-wide infrastructure business opportunities, seek cooperation, collaboration opportunities to develop resources commercially with other proponents and / or other 3rd parties (e.g. water / power solutions).
• Technical integration and overall management, planning, execution, delivery, and risk management of upstream Concept Engineering activities (pre project sanction); integrate inputs from own team, functional teams, project delivery organisation and external contractors resulting in execute AFE for final investment decision (FID) that has buy-in from internal (particularly project delivery) and external stakeholders.
• Lead the alignment of shareholders, stakeholders and JV partners to ensure identified Concept Engineering solutions can be realised and any significant risks mitigated, integration of Non-Technical Risk (NTR) management within the asset value proposition and alignment around external commitments. 

You will demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills along with the ability to contribute to a high performing-team with a second-to-none focus on safety and integrity. 

To be considered for this role, you will ideally have: 

• University degree in relevant discipline, or be able to operate at this level.
• Experience in the Petroleum industry with emphasis on development roles.
• As a leader of a large technical/operational team, the individual must have excellent interpersonal & leadership skills.
• Have demonstrable competence, proven track record and capabilities to lead complex opportunities, with dimensions of complexities coming from the full business spectrum, be it Technical, Economic, Commercial. Organisational, or Political (TECOP) and including Health, Safety, Security and Environment, Social Performance and Sustainable Development.
• Successfully managed very large or complex opportunities with significant risk exposure, in which the incumbent was responsible for the integration of most or all of the TECOP dimensions of risk.
• Working Experience in Joint Venture Entities

If you’re excited about this role however don’t meet all the criteria, we would still love to hear from you anyway. You may be the perfect candidate for this role or future roles with Arrow Energy.

We are committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace and genuinely encourage applications from all genders and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates.

All applications will be considered with utmost confidentiality.

One Arrow, One Team.